The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the sons of men. The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future.

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.